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There is no need to depend on the availability of external fonts on a
particular system. I believe the lowest overhead way of doing this
would be to convert a true-type font to primitives (lines, arcs,
circles) and package it as a set of footprints in the layout database.
All that is needed is a script to convert a range of characters in a
true-type font into a library of footprints. That way, when a text
primitive is inserted into a design, the graphical editor just inserts
the converted footprints for each character.

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 3:30 AM, Levente (leventelist AT gmail DOT com) [via
geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
> Yes, that would be nice to have pretty fonts on the layout, and also
> arbitrary bitmap. To be honest, I don't know how to implement that when it
> comes to gerber output.
>
> Maybe with one of these?
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_raster-to-vector_conversion_software
>
> Lev
>
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 8:51 AM, Gabriel Paubert (paubert AT iram DOT es) [via
> geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 01:22:06AM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
>> > "Lev (leventelist AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]"
>> > <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote:
>> > > Yes, text is not yet implemented. My take on this is to use graphical
>> > > primitives, and draw texts from those, just like gEDA/pcb uses lines.
>> >
>> > If you are considering a change to how text is implemented, please
>> > seriously consider UTF8 plus TrueType (or other external fonts) rather
>> > than one hard-coded 7-bit stick-figure font.
>>
>> Seconded, but I have 2 questions:
>>
>> Is is possible to guarantee a minimal set of available fonts on any
>> system?
>> (Honestly I have no idea, I use TeX, never MSOffice or LibreOffice for
>> writing documents).
>>
>> A good library to transform UTF8 8 to vector/polygons that can be used
>> for Gerber/gcode?
>> (Maybe related to the first)
>>
>>     Gabriel
>>
>



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Jason White